unit 3: Young Inventor- Adeeb Al-Balooshi

Module 2  Health

Unit 3  

Medical Advances

Student’s Book, pages 20 and 21

Medical advances

Before you begin:

1 Read the title of the unit and the title of the article below. How do you think they are related to the photographs? What do you think the young inventor in the article has designed?

Answer:

It looks as if these are new medical inventions: The article is probably something about progress in medicine – Perhaps it is about new arms and legs for injured or disabled people that the young inventor has designed.

2 DW Read the words in the box and form pairs of synonyms. Two words have their synonyms in the newspaper article. Find them. Check the meaning of any word(s) that you do not know in the Glossary on pages 90–92 or in a dictionary.

A synonym is a word that means nearly the same as another word.

 

Answers:

apparatus – equipment

appendage – limb

artificial – prosthetic

sponsor – fund

           Young Emirati inventor is going to travel the world

3  This newspaper article is about a young inventor. Listen and read. Check your answers to exercise 1.

Young Emirati inventor is going to travel the world    Ten-year-old Adeeb al-Balooshi, from Dubai, is going to travel to seven countries on a tour which has been organised and funded by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad, Crown Prince of Dubai. The boy caught Sheikh Hamdan’s attention with his invention – a prosthetic limb for his father. The Sheikh has taken a special interest in the boy, and hopes the tour that he is sponsoring for Adeeb will give the young inventor more self-confidence and inspire other young Emirati inventors.      Adeeb got the idea for a special kind of prosthetic leg while he was at the beach with his family. His father, who wears an artificial leg, could not swim in the sea as he could not risk getting his leg wet. This inspired Adeeb to invent a waterproof prosthetic leg.    Adeeb is going to visit the USA, France, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Italy and Germany, where he will be staying with relatives. However, while he is in Germany, Adeeb will not be spending all his time sightseeing. He will be working with a specialist doctor to build the appendage. He will also be attending a course on prosthetics and learning about different kinds of medical apparatus.    Adeeb has invented several other devices, including a tiny cleaning robot and a heart monitor, Which is attached to a car seat belt. In the case of an emergency, rescue services and the driver’s family will be automatically connected with the driver through this special checking device.        He has also invented a fireproof helmet. This special equipment, which has a built-in camera system, will help rescue workers in emergencies. It is for these reasons that Adeeb rightly deserves his reputation as one of the youngest inventors in the world.

 

• Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad is the Crown Prince of Dubai.
• Adeeb's tour is sponsored by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad
• Two reasons for the trip Sheikh Hamdan is sponsoring for Adeeb:

        1. Giving the young inventor more self-confidence.

        2. Inspiring other young Emirati inventors.

• The reason why the boy caught Sheikh Hamdan's attention is his invention.
• One of Adeeb's inventions is a prosthetic limb for his father.
• The underlined pronouns in the text above refer to: 

which: a tour

his: Adeeb al-Balooshi

he: Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad

• The word which means"to financially support a person or an event" is sponsoring

• The time when the idea came to Adeeb with his invention is while he was at the beach with his family.
• Adeeb's father couldn’t swim because he could not risk getting his leg wet.
• The artificial leg that Adeeb invented is distinguished because it is a waterproof prosthetic leg.
• Adeeb got his inspiration for a waterproof leg when he was at the beach with his family. His father couldn’t swim because he couldn’t risk getting his prosthetic leg wet.

- The suffix – Proof means to provide protection against.

• The underlined pronouns in the text above refer to: 

he (line 1): Adeeb his ×2(line2) : Adeeb 

who (line2) : Adeeb's father 

he (line 3): Adeeb's father his (line4): Adeeb's father  

•  Adeeb's tour is going to be to different countries, such as the USA, France, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, and Germany
•  Adeeb will be staying with relatives in Germany.
•  Adeeb will be doing two things in Germany:

      1. Working with a doctor to build his new invention of the waterproof prosthetic leg.

      2. Attending a course to find out more about prosthetics.

• The underlined pronouns he ×3 and 'his' refer to:  Adeeb 
•  The word which means ' body part, such as an arm or a leg, connected to the main trunk of the body ' is an appendage

• Adeeb's inventions are:

1. A tiny cleaning robot

2. A heart monitor

3. A fireproof helmet

•  The in-car heart monitor will be used to keep an eye on those with heart problems while they are driving or in a car. It is built into the seat belt so that when the driver or passenger wears it, it is near their heart.
•  Adeeb deserves his reputation because of:

1. His invention of a prosthetic limb for his father.

2. His invention of an in-car heart monitor.

3. The invention of a tiny cleaning robot

4. The invention of a fireproof helmet

• The underlined pronouns in the paragraph above refer to:

which (line 2): a heart monitor 

He (line 5): Adeeb 

which (line5): This special equipment

  his (line 7): Adeeb's